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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

My Pirate Collection


Have three of these!
In the past decade, my collection of pirates has grown, especially in the past couple years.  I just have to boast about how much I've acquired.  CD-Rs don't count 'cos anyone can make those these days.  MP3s; please!
All courtesy Boris except * from a shop or elsewhere.  Bootlegs will be on another list in future.

ABBA
ABBA (1975)**
ABBA The Album (1978) (Also on Japanese LP)
Voulez-Vous** (also on UK and Mexican LPs)
ABBA Gold
Live at Wembley Arena
Agnetha Fältskog - A (2013)

AC/DC
High Voltage (Australia and international**)
Powerage/Blow Up Your Video*
Highway to Hell***
For Those About to Rock*/**
'74 Jailbreak
Flick of the Switch**
Fly on the Wall (cassette* and CD)
Who Made Who?
The Razors Edge
Ballbreaker
Stiff Upper Lip
Black Ice
Live at River Plate
Greatest Hells Hits (counts as a pirate as it has official tracks in a compilation the band would never release themselves)*
Iron Man 2
No Bull
Back Home with Brian (although a bootleg anyway)
Rock or Bust/Backtracks*
Rarities (may be more of a bootleg compilation)
Volts (Bonfire)
Let There Be Rock (Australia)
Bon Scott & Fraternity - Complete Sessions 1971-72

Ace of Base
Flowers*

a-ha
Hunting High and Low**
Scoundrel Days**
Stay on These Roads*
East of the Sun, West of the Moon*
Memorial Beach
How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head?
Analogue*
Foot of the Mountain
(Used to have Minor Earth Major Sky until I received the EU promo, so I sold the pirate).
Morten Harket - Out of My Hands* and Brother*
Magne F - Past Perfect Future Tense and White Xmas Lies

Jon Anderson
Animation*/**
Deseo
Toltec
Survival and Other Stories
Anderson/(Roine) Stolt (Kaipa/The Flower Kings/Transatlantic/Agents of Mercy) - Invention of Knowledge
1000 Hands Chapter One

Asia
Astra**

Asia (featuring John Payne)
Aria (also on US tape)
Silent Nation

Tony Banks
Bankstatement*

The Beatles
Please Please Me/The Early Beatles**/***
with the beatles (1963)**/Meet the Beatles!*** (stereo original remaster and mono 1987 mixes)
Second Album (1964)***
A Hard Days Night (remaster)**/(stereo mini-LP)/Something New*/***
Beatles No. 5*
Beatles for Sale*/Beatles '65 (stereo and mono old mixes)/(new mix)**/***
Beatles VI*** (also on US and Japanese LPs)
The Beatles (self-titled West German compilations)
Beatles' Greatest (Israel and Japan LP covers)**
Help! (CD Maximum)*/(remaster)**/***
Rubber Soul*/**/***
Yesterday and Today***
Revolver**/***
A Collection of Beatles Oldies*/**
Magical Mystery Tour (stereo* and mono original and stereo and mono*/** remasters)/***
The white album */**/*** (both stereo CD editions and Japanese LP w/o obi)
Yellow Submarine*/**/***/film DVD
Hey Jude***
Abbey Road*** (pictured above; copy of Japanese release, copy of 2009 EU remaster*, and CD Maximum 2-in-1 w/Hey Jude [The Beatles Again]*/**/***)
Let It Be*/*** (also on original Argentina CD)
Live at the Star Club (given a general release at first though technically a bootleg)*/**/***
Live at the Hollywood Bowl (rough mix not used on 1977 LP)*/**
Anthology 1* (only one from mainland China I've found unless my copy of Let It Be... Naked is a pirate too)
1 (2000)*
The Early Tapes of the Beatles (with Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers)*/**
Mono Masters*
Love*

[Did get Ringo (1973) one year to sell online but I'm not as interested in Starrs solo stuff]

Black Sabbath
(Note: Power Sound 2001/Creative Sounds budget reissues are pretty much grey market, so they don't really count here.)
Sabotage*/**
Technical Ecstasy
Never Say Die!**
Heaven and Hell**
Live Evil
Born Again
Headless Cross*
Týr
Dehumanizer*
The Dio Years
Cross Purposes*
Forbidden
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know*
13 (2013)
The End EP
Gathered in Their Masses
The End: Live in Birmingham

Kate Bush
Lionheart**
The Red Shoes**
Live at Hammersmith '79 (practically a bootleg but there was once an official full-length release)*

Crowded House
Intriguer*

Def Leppard
Retro Active*
Slang
Def Leppard (2015)
Down 'n' Outz - This is How We Roll
Retromania (compilation of B-sides, bonus tracks, covers, live and other rare tracks)

Depeche Mode
Black Celebration**
Music for the Masses**
Violator**
Songs of Faith and Devotion**
Ultra
Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit² and The Third Chimpanzee EP
Playing the Angel
The Best of Depeche Mode Vol 1
Sounds of the Universe
Delta Machine
Mode: O, D, and E

Holy Diver remaster**
The Last in Line
Sacred Heart
Dream Evil
Strange Highways
Angry Machines
Magica
Killing the Dragon**
Master of the Moon
The Elves - ...And Before Elf, There Were Elves

Duran Duran
Sing Blue Silver
Red Carpet Massacre
Future Past**

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)**
Tarkus**
Pictures at an Exhibition**
Works Vol 1 and 2**
Love Beach (also on Canadian and South Korean LPs)**
Black Moon
In the Hot Seat

Fish
Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors**
Internal Exile
Sunsets on Empire
Fellini Days
13th Star
A Feast of Consequences
A Parley with Angels
Weltschmerz

Fleetwood Mac
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac (1968)**
The Pious Bird of Good Omen**
Penguin
Buckingham Nicks (1973)*/***
Stevie Nicks - The Other Side of the Mirror
Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

Peter Gabriel
Scratch My Back
New Blood
Rated PG

Dave Gahan
Paper Monsters
Hourglass
Angels & Ghosts and Imposter (with Soulsavers)

Genesis
Live (1973)*/**
Selling England by the Pound**
...and then there were three...**
Three Sides Live*/**
We Can't Dance**
The Last Domino
Extra Tracks 1970-1975, 1976-1982, 1983-1998
Phil Collins - Going Back

Gentle Giant
Octopus**
In a Glass House**
Free Hand**
The Missing Piece**
Giant for a Day!**

Geordie
Hope You Like It
Don't Be Fooled by the Name
Save the World
No Good Woman
The Singles Collection
Keep on Rockin'
Unreleased Tapes

Rattle That Lock
Yes I Have Ghosts
Live in Pompeii

Steve Hackett
Defector**
Blues with a Feeling
Till We Have Faces**
Feedback '86
Genesis Files/Revisited 1*
Squackett - Life Within a Day
Genesis Revisited II: Selection
Under a Mediterranean Sky
Surrender of Silence
Genesis Revisited Live: Seconds Out & More

George Harrison
Electronic Sound
Living in the Material World (also on South African LP)
Dark Horse** (also on UK and Argentina LPs)
Extra Texture* (also on Barbados LP)
Thirty Three & 1/3*/**
George Harrison (1979)**
Gone Troppo**
Cloud Nine*/**
The Best of Dark Horse*/**
Live in Japan
Early Takes Vol 1

Steve Howe
Beginnings
The Steve Howe Album (1979)**
Turbulence
Not Necessarily Acoustic
Homebrew 5
Nexus w/Virgil Howe
Love Is**

Tony Iommi
Iommi (2000) (with various artists)
Fused (with Glenn Highes)
The DEP Sessions (with Glenn Hughes)
WhoCares (with Ian Gillan and various artists)

IQ
Ever (don't ever tell Martin Orford!)*
Subterranea
The Seventh House

Elton John
Empty Sky**
Tumbleweed Connection**
Madman Across the Water**
Honky Château**
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player!**
Here and There**
A Single Man**
Victim of Love**
Rare Masters (includes Friends soundtrack**)
Peachtree Road
The Captain and the Kid**
The Diving Board**
Good Morning to the Night (w/P-Nau)
Diamonds**
Regimental Sgt Zippo

King Crimson
In the Court of the Crimson King***
Larks' Tongues in Aspic* (signed by Bill Bruford without him knowing the truth!)
Starless and Bible Black**
Red**
USA

John Lennon
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)/Jams & Demos**
Imagine**
Sometime in New York City***
Mind Games*/**
Walls and Bridges*/**
Rock 'n' Roll**
Double Fantasy** (also on Canadian and Mexican LPs)
Acoustic
The US vs John Lennon

Jon and Vangelis
Short Stories**
Page of Life

Duncan Mackay
Chimera
Score
The Bletchley Park Project (with Georg Voros)
Kintsugi

Marillion
Real to Reel**/Brief Encounter
Early Stages (complete and highlights)
Sounds That Can't Be Made
With Friends from the Orchestra
Mark Kellys Marathon (2020)
With Friends at St Davids
An Hour Before It's Dark

Brian May
Back to the Light
Resurrection
Another World

Paul McCartney (and Wings+)
Ram (Paul and Linda McCartney)**/***
Wild Life*/**/+/***
Red Rose Speedway*/**/+/***
Back to the Egg+**
McCartney II (1980)**
Tug of War**
Pipes of Peace**
Give My Regards to Broad Street (also on Méxicana LP)*
Снова в СССР (also on LP from there)*
Flowers in the Dirt Original B-Sides, Remixes, Single Mixes and Cassette Demos
Tripping the Live Fantastic!*
MTV Unplugged: The Official Bootleg*
Flaming Pie*
Driving Rain
Electric Arguments (Fireman)*
Back in the US (DVD)* (CD**)
New (regular edition)**
McCartney III (2020)**
7" Singles

Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy
Barcelona (with Montserrat Caballé) original edition and remaster (also on US LP)
The Great Pretender
Original Version/Single Version/Rarities

George Michael
Older

Moody Blues
The Present**

Alanis Morissette
So-Called Chaos
Such Pretty Forks in the Road

Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds (2011)

Ozzy Osbourne
Blizzard of Ozz**
Diary of a Madman**
Tribute
No Rest for the Wicked**
No More Tears
Down to Earth
Black Rain
Scream

Pink Floyd
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn**
Music from the Motion Picture More
Ummagumma***
Atom Heart Mother*/**
Meddle**
Live at Pompeii (also on official DVD)
Dark Side of the Moon Live (also on bootleg)
Animals (2018 remix)**
The Wall**
The Final Cut**
A Momentary Lapse of Reason**
Delicate Sound of Thunder (also on USSR LP and original Brasil CDs)
P*U*L*S*E*
Richard Wright - Wet Dream**, Broken China and Identity (Zee)
The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Everything Under the Sun
Cre/ation
The Later Years: Unreleased Live and Studio/Knebworth Concert 1990 (also on separate CD)

Queen
Flash Gordon***
Live Killers*/**
Hot Space**
The Works** (also on UK LP and South Korean cassette)
A Kind of Magic**
The Miracle LP* and CD**
At the Beeb*
Innuendo**
Made in Heaven**
Return of the Champions (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
On Fire: Live at the Bowl
The Cosmos Rocks (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Deep Cuts Vol 1-2
Queen Forever
A Night at the Odeon
On Air
Roger Taylor - Strange Frontier
The Cross - Mad, Fab and Dangerous to Know

Trevor Rabin
Wolf

Richie Blackmores Rainbow (1975)
Rainbow Rising (1976)
Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
On Stage

Renaissance
A Song for All Seasons**
Azure d'Or
Camera Camera**
Tuscany
In the Land of the Rising Sun
Grandine il Vento/Symphony of Light
de Lane Lea Studios 1973

REO Speedwagon
REO (1976)
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
Nine Lives**
Good Trouble**

Rush
Rush (1974)**
(I have bootlegs of the boys too, but that's for another day and a different animal)

Supertramp
Indelibly Stamped**
Crisis? What Crisis?**
Breakfast in America*/**
Famous Last Words*/**
Paris (also on Japan LPs)

Nad Sylvan
Courting the Widow
The Bride Said No

The Tipping Point

Traveling Wilburys
Volume 1 & 3*

UK
UK (1978)**
Danger Money**
Night After Night** (All three albums on 2 CDs)

Rick Wakeman
The Six Wives of Henry VIII**/Silent Nights*/**
The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table**
No Earthly Connection**
1984 (1981)**
Phantom Power*
Softsword
Out There
Lisztomania
Rhapsodies**
The Living Tree: In Concert Vol 1 and Studio (w/Jon Anderson)
The Red Planet

Roger Waters
The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Radio KAOS
In the Flesh
The Wall (2015)
Comfortably Numb
The Lockdown Sessions

John Wetton
Sinister/Welcome to Heaven*
Rock of Faith
Raised in Captivity
Icon Zero w/Geoff Downes

Ray Wilson
Makes Me Think of Home
Upon My Life
Propaganda Man
Chasing Rainbows

World Trade
World Trade (1989)
Euphoria
Unify
Billy Sherwood - Citizen: In the Next Life

Yes
Yes (1969)*/**
The Yes Album (1971)**
Close to the Edge**
Tales from Topographic Oceans**
Going for the One**
Tormato*/**
Drama**
Big Generator**
Talk*
Keys to Ascension Vol 1-2
The Ultimate Yes
The Quest
Tony Kaye - End of Innocence

**Also on official import from the UK, EU or Canada.
***Also on original US LP.